Herbert Hoover quotes

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. (Herbert Hoover)
About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends. View quote
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America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. View quote
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A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus. View quote
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Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. View quote
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Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. View quote
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Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress. View quote
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I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him. View quote
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When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned. View quote
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Children are our most valuable natural resource. View quote
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Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury. (Herbert Hoover)
When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man. View quote
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Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs. View quote
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Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe. View quote
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The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office. View quote
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With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system. View quote
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The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people. View quote
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I outlived the bastards. View quote
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This is not a showman's job. I will not step out of character. View quote
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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next. View quote
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I am willing to pledge myself that if the time should ever come that the voluntary agencies of the country together with the local and state governments are unable to find resources with which to prevent hunger and suffering ... I will ask the aid of every resource of the Federal Government.... I have the faith in the American people that such a day will not come. (Herbert Hoover)
In the large sense the primary cause of the Great Depression was the war of 1914-1918. Without the war there would have been no depression of such dimensions. There might have been a normal cyclical recession; but, with the usual timing, even that readjustment probably would not have taken place at that particular period, nor would it have been a "Great Depression. View quote
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More than ten million women march to work every morning side by side with the men. Steadily the importance of women is gaining notonly in the routine tasks of industry but in executive responsibility. I include also the woman who stays at home as the guardian of the welfare of the family. She is a partner in the job and wages. Women constitute a part of our industrial achievement. View quote
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Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves. View quote
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It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own. View quote
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